PUBLIC LAW 106-386—OCT. 28, 2000 114 STAT. 1469 (24) Trafficking in persons is a transnational crime with national implications. To deter international trafficking and bring its perpetrators to justice, nations including the United States must recognize that trafficking is a serious offense. This is done by prescribing appropriate punishment, giving priority to the prosecution of trafficking offenses, and protecting rather than punishing the victims of such offenses. The United States must work bilaterally and multilaterally to abolish the trafficking industry by taking steps to promote cooperation among countries linked together by international trafficking routes. The United States must also urge the international community to take strong action in multilateral fora to engage recalcitrant countries in serious and sustained efforts to eliminate trafficking and protect trafficking victims. SEC. 103. DEFINITIONS. 22 USC 7102. In this division: (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.—The term "appropriate congressional committees" means the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. (2) COERCION.— The term "coercion" means— (A) threats of serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; (B) any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that failure to perform an act would result in serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; or (C) the abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process. (3) COMMERCIAL SEX ACT. —The term "commercial sex act" means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person. (4) DEBT BONDAGE.— The term "debt bondage" means the status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of his or her personal services or of those of a person under his or her control as a security for debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined. (5) INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE.—The term "involuntary servitude" includes a condition of servitude induced by means of— (A) any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that, if the person did not enter into or continue in such condition, that person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint; or (B) the abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process. (6) MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF TRAF- FICKING.— The term "minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking" means the standards set forth in section 108. (7) NONHUMANITARIAN, NONTRADE-RELATED FOREIGN ASSISTANCE. —The term "nonhumanitarian, nontrade-related foreign assistance" means— (A) any assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, other than—
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